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Erik, working that circuit…

by Lessa

12_05_Erik.jpg…and adding more fuel to the ASS2 fire – because he is available for interviews and we still haven’t seen hide nor hair of James. Yay! I mean… Well, you know what I mean!

So, Erik’s working the interviews, and most of them are similar, as they do tend to be. Erik is one of the few of China’s Survivors to have known nothing about the game at all, until he was approached and asked if he wanted to do it. After the initial approach, he began to watch Survivor: Fiji, and the more he watched, the more he got into it – as he puts it “It’s one of those games, and one of those shows, that when you start watching it you get into it and literally can’t stop. You can’t get enough of it.”

I feel ya, brother, I feel ya! That’s why I’m here, after all!

Erik was asked to clarify the whole thrown challenge ordeal – did he, or did he not know about it?

Peih-Gee and Jaime and I were a very strong alliance, so we had all three discussed what should we do, we’ve got this opportunity. We decided that we were going into the first immunity challenge, the swimming challenge, and we were gonna win it. So, I went in thinking that we had all intentions of winning that challenge. Before the challenge started, after I was no longer able to talk with Jaime and Peih-Gee because we had already started swimming, apparently they think they saw James, Todd, and a couple other people from the other tribe sort of communicating. Whatever they saw, whatever Jaime and Peih-Gee saw, it freaked them out.

By that point, it was too late for them to tell me, so I worked my butt off trying to win, and I could hear Jeff Probst saying “Zhan Hu making no progress.” I was like, “Oh dear”. I smelled something funny, so I was just like, “Okay, great, they’ve thrown the challenge”. I was a little mad. I felt like I was forced to trust their judgment call, but I had to trust that they were still looking out for my best interest at that point. I think they were, so that’s what happened.

On the relationship between him and Jaime (confirmed by Dave, question evaded by Jaime), Erik would only say that she’s very important to him, and he is excited to see where it goes. He’d like her to be in his life forever – they just clicked instantly. Sounds like a yes to dating to me! Add to the fact that there were pictures posted on someone’s myspace where she attended a recent performance of his band… hmmmmmmm.

Erik addressed the fact that many folks (myself included) seemed to think he had no significant strategy at all. He would like to “beg to differ. I feel like I did pretty well and I am proud of all the decisions I made. I felt I was able to maintain the integrity of myself throughout the game and I still think I had a shot to get to the end – I almost did but it didn’t quite happen.”

Well that’s your story, and we’ll let you stick to it. All in all, I think Eric was just too nice of a guy for Survivor – he played the good ole boy, but didn’t know when to really step it up. He almost did it before his ouster – if he could have convinced Amanda and/or Denise to at least force a tie with Todd, that could have changed the course of the game for himself. He did mention that he was worried about changing and going balls out all of the sudden would affect him badly, though, which is why he decided consistency was the key for him.

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And don’t forget –this is THE Survivor Week! We’ve the regular Thursday Episode, then the Finale on Sunday! Where our suspicions should be confirmed about ASS2! Whoo!


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